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A lightweight index of the latest Smarts posts.
Smarts Now Covers 50 EVM Chains: A Full Map From Ethereum to the Long Tail
How Smarts supports 50 EVM chains through a tiered model: live state on six mainstream chains, and verified source code plus ABI coverage across the long tail.
USD1's Control Stack: Minting, Freezing, and Signed Transfers
A source-grounded read of USD1's StablecoinV2 contract: proxy upgradeability, owner-only mint/pause/freeze paths, EIP-3009 authorizations, and the current live state behind the ticker.
Beyond Blacklists: Writing Through USDC's Control Stack
A deeper USDC walkthrough focused on the control stack: minting quotas, signed authorizations, proxy upgradeability, rescue paths, and the monitoring signals that matter beyond blacklisting.
Why COMPLEMENTARY Matches Are Cheaper on Polymarket
An analysis of CTFExchange V2's three settlement paths (COMPLEMENTARY, MINT, MERGE) and how the gas-cost gap affects Polymarket's liquidity distribution.
How USDC Issuance Limits Change
A live-event analysis of USDC minter configuration activity: what recent allowance changes reveal about issuance cadence, active minters, and operational control.
Inside a DEX's Second-by-Second Flow: Ask Claude to Read Uniswap V3
A practical walkthrough of using smarts.md and Claude to inspect recent Uniswap V3 Swap events, infer participant patterns, and read liquidity depth from live onchain data.
34 Blacklists, 66 Unblacklists: What USDC's Blacklist Is Actually Doing
A live-event analysis of USDC blacklist and unblacklist activity: what recent risk-action events reveal about stablecoin operations, role stability, and monitoring signals.
What Etherscan's Pricing and Coverage Mean for Base Analytics
A practical read on Etherscan's current pricing, chain coverage, and endpoint tiers, with a focus on what it means for Base analytics and USDC event research.
Reading the USDC Contract: Why It Is Not a Plain ERC-20
A source-grounded deep dive into Ethereum USDC's FiatTokenV2_2 contract: roles, minting controls, blacklist and pause powers, signed payment flows, event monitoring, and current live state.
Polymarket Contract Architecture
A full deconstruction of Polymarket's 13 production contracts on Polygon: pUSD user-layer stablecoin, NegRiskAdapter capital efficiency, UMA oracle integration, and the immutable Gnosis CTF settlement ledger. Every claim grounded in verified source + live on-chain reads.
What is Smarts.md?
A short introduction to Smarts.md and what it helps people do.
Smarts.md's English-Market Growth Strategy
Smarts.md's early growth strategy for the English market: build DeFi documentation authority through X, Reddit, SEO, AI Search, and Build in Public.
Why I'm building Smarts.md
A contract's real state doesn't live in git — it lives on-chain. Smarts.md is the live projection.